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Showing 1 to 20 of 4138 for “"acceptance"”.
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Acceptance of anthropomorphic technology.
… informs user responses of familiarity and acceptance to anthropomorphic technology, but also withdrawal from and rejection of anthropomorphic technology due to the presence of the uncanny valley, threat to the human distinctiveness, or the undermining of traditional expectations from …
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CHRONIC PAIN ACCEPTANCE: OPTIMISM MEDIATES THE RELATION BETWEEN DISPOSITIONAL MINDFULNESS AND PAIN ACCEPTANCE
<p>ABSTRACT</p> <p>Chronic pain is associated with many indicators of maladjustment. We expected that five individual components of dispositional mindfulness would be positively associated with pain willingness (Hypothesis 1) and activity engagement (Hypothesis 2). A mediational hypothesis was …
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Rebuilding Theories of Technology Acceptance: A Qualitative Case Study of Physicians' Acceptance of Technology
The Technology Acceptance Model has been widely applied and has been quite successful at explaining the behavioral intention to use technology in many organizations. One of the most significant variables in the Technology Acceptance Model is perceived ease of use. The Technology Acceptance Model …
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Workaholism, health, and self-acceptance
… the relationships between workaholism, self-acceptance, psychological well-being, and physical symptoms. Furthermore, participants completed a form to rate their perceptions of their parents work behaviors, and thus relationships between perceived parental workaholism, physical symptoms, …
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The Online Shopping Acceptance Model
… trend, there is a dearth of knowledge about the acceptance of online shopping and the use of social media in developing countries such as Saudi Arabia. Technology adoption levels in Saudi Arabia are growing rapidly but have yet to reach their full potential. One of the leading theories explaining …
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Pilot Acceptance of Personal, Wearable Fatigue Monitoring Technology: An Application of the Extended Technology Acceptance Model
… for this study is the Extended Technology Acceptance Model, and the research question is: What factors affect pilots’ behavioral intention to use personal, wearable fatigue monitoring technology, and to what degree? There were ten hypotheses tested that corresponded to different …
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Schematic effects of rape myth acceptance
… the type of influence exerted by rape myth acceptance (RMA). Rape myths may be defined as "beliefs about rape (i.e., about its causes, context, consequences, perpetrators, victims, and their interaction) that serve to deny, downplay or justify male sexual aggression against women" (Gerger, …
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Rape myth acceptance in college students
… variables that may be related to rape myth acceptance in college students. Identifying variables that may be related to rape myth acceptance is essential for improving rape prevention programming. The setting chosen to examine these variables consisted of 349 students enrolled in …
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Rural Acceptance of the Nurse Practitioner
… A descriptive design was used to describe the acceptance of the nurse practitioner by patients living in rural southcentral Kentucky who utilize the services of the community hospital. Every fifth inpatient and outpatient discharge was mailed the Kviz Assessment Questionnaire and a demographic …
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Sports television viewing and value acceptance
… values in our society, which led to individual acceptance of the values personally. It was found that almost half of the viewing by respondents of television was watching sports. By watching these events, respondents were able to see these values first-hand and then personally accept them into …
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Acceptance of E-mobility in India
… define the key influencing factors towards the acceptance behaviour of electric passenger cars out of a customer´s perspective in order to promote the sales of electric passenger cars in India. Through a systematic literature review and conducted expert interviews 14 influencing factors towards …
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Mobile device acceptance in nursing education
… study was to investigate the mobile device acceptance (MDA) model that guides nursing students’ decision to use mobile devices as educational tools. The MDA model also guides the measurement development and psychometrics testing for the MDA constructs in order to understand mobile device use …
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Modeling gap acceptance at freeway merges
… develops a merging model that captures the gap acceptance behavior of drivers that merge from a ramp into a congested freeway. Merging can be classified into three types: normal, forced and cooperative lane changing. The developed merging model uses a single critical gap function, which …
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Acceptance or rejection of a marriage contract
… and available; to study the relationship between acceptance of a marriage contract and demographical characteristics of subjects; and to study which clauses in a marriage contracts would be most likely to be used. Two groups were surveyed: college students and respondents to a newspaper article. A …
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Young Adult Perception and Acceptance of Biometrics
… be increasingly successful in the coming years.•Acceptance of Biometrics Used by the Government and Organizations - In this section we gained some very distinct feelings of the young adult population toward biometric technologies. Some of these feelings could even be applied to the population as …
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GAP ACCEPTANCE STUDY USING VIDEO IMAGE PROCESSING
… one of the common ways of data collection in gap acceptance studies. Tedious and laborious as it is, this manual method is rather inaccurate in time recording. Using a carefully chosen site for investigation, this thesis proposes that it is possible to employ a more automated process to obtain gap …
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